Procedure and House Affairs committee  Who do you mean, exactly?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Unfortunately, I wouldn't be qualified to speak to their intent. What we look at is the techniques that are used by such groups and how to provide advice to prevent those things from being successful in our own systems. So I would be unable to comment on that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There are international partnerships with our direct counterparts, whereby we share information and technological capabilities with each other, because we have some common goals and objectives. Those would be our direct counterparts in the United States, the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand mostly—those whom we mostly deal with.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There are venues for cooperation more broadly.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm here as a technical expert. It's very inappropriate for me to provide any comments or suggestions in that regard.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, the Internet has evolved into a vast, complex infrastructure. There are two billion users today on the Internet, and the number is growing. There are hundreds of millions of websites and trillions of e-mails passed every day, so it's a very difficult environment to control—if it were even possible to control in that way.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Some of the things that the CIO, Louis Bard, raised are good IT practices, many of which originate from our advice and guidance from an IT security point of view, and which would help prevent a lot of malicious activity from happening on networks or computers. Those are standards and guidance that could go a long way to making it very difficult for those seeking to do harm to do the harm that they do.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I agree with that. Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  An IT security breach....

Procedure and House Affairs committee  From this video, from an IT security perspective, I don't see any.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I would suggest it would be the investigative bodies at our disposal in government.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm sorry. I didn't hear the last part.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In our opinion, no.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm not an expert there, but yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In terms of the legislation in question, it has no effect on the authorities and mandate of CSE. Our own legislation certainly has measures in place to respect all applicable laws, including those that protect the privacy of Canadians. We certainly have a strict regime of policy and procedures internally that have been approved and reviewed by the Department of Justice.